The Wheat Quality Council Spring Wheat and Durum Tour wrapped up with a weighted average spring wheat yield estimate of 49 bushels per acre. That’s down from 54.5 bushels per acre last year. The durum yield estimate is 37 bushels per acre, down from 45.3 bushels per acre last year. There was wheat that was planted very early and other areas were delayed by persistent spring rains. Despite that, WQC Executive Director Dave Green said it is a very even crop. “It seems like every crop is in the soft dough, starting to turn color,” said Green. “I think here in Minnesota, there was a lot of wheat that looked like two weeks before it gets cut, and most of the wheat in North Dakota, I would say was three, four, five weeks out. The crop looked uniformly developed in North Dakota.”
